Pastor Len is the founding pastor of Sherwood Presbyterian Church, begun with the vision of a church that would reach people who do not know God with the good news of Jesus Christ and enfold them into a loving community of faith. His passion is create a safe place where people of all ages can explore the claims of the gospel without fear or judgment.

Len has a relational style and his primary gifts are teaching, leadership, administration, and evangelism. He loves the Sherwood community and was a member of the Sherwood YMCA Board for 6 years, participates in the Sherwood Chamber of Commerce, and meets regularly with the other Sherwood pastors for mutual support and ministry together. Len is also active in church planting through serving as a church planting coach with the PCUSA denomination and through serving as chair of the Presbytery's New Church Development Team.

Len was raised in Pasadena, California and was an agnostic before becoming a follower of Christ as a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied computer science. He then worked as a software developer for Oracle Corporation in the Silicon Valley before sensing God’s call to full-time ministry and leaving to attend Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.

Len and his wife Amy were married in 1996 and they have three sons: Benjamin (born in 2000), Samuel (born in 2003), and Joshua (born in 2005). They met while students at U.C. Berkeley through a summer missions trip with the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. Amy is currently a stay-at-home Mom who homeschools the boys. At the church, she teaches Sunday school and is involved in the prayer ministry. Previously, Amy was a middle school teacher.

Len enjoys reading, anything Apple, college football, playing piano and guitar, basketball, and jogging slowly. He can be reached by email or at 503-925-8175.

Angela Mansfield grew up at the beach in North County San Diego, where she began attending church as a high school student. She went to Los Angeles for undergrad at Occidental College as a Psychology major, Religious Studies minor. Through the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Occidental, Angela began to study the Bible and experienced the depth of Christian community. After college, Angela worked for 4 years as a 401(k) Education & Enrollment Specialist and began volunteering with the High School ministry at Glendale Presbyterian Church. At that point, Angela recognized that God was calling her into full-time ministry, so she quit her job to attend Fuller Theological Seminary.

Angela earned her Masters of Divinity and completed all of the requirements for Ordination in the PC(USA), including a chaplaincy internship at Legacy Emanuel Hospital, which is what brought her to Portland- “I fell in love with this city after spending a summer here. So, I moved to Portland in June of ‘06 with no job, just a sense that God wanted me here.”

“One of my favorite stories of Jesus is in Mark 2, when the four men come carrying their paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing. Upon finding the house too crowded to reach him, they heft their friend onto the roof, dig through it and proceed to lower their friend to Jesus’ feet. This is amazing to me! What persistence, what love, what faith these friends possess! And Jesus recognizes it too. I love that God puts us in community so that we can carry one another and be carried when we can’t walk to Jesus’ feet ourselves. It’s a gift to share life with others.”

For fun, Angela likes to be active with the Mortensen small group and her friends, travel (especially to Southern California to see family and friends), play the bass on the worship team, read, watch movies, follow the NBA, watch NCIS on Tuesdays, play on Facebook, and sing.

For more information, please email Angela or call her at 503-925-8175.

Dan joined our staff in March 2011 and is a native Oregonian who grew up in the Salem area. He has always loved music, and has been involved in worship in the church since high school. Dan writes, “Music was a huge part of the churches I grew up in. People were drawn to the church by the great music, but the worship itself was powerful. I knew that God was present, even as a young boy I could sense it.”

After graduating from high school, Dan went to junior college, and later attended Willamette University in Salem on scholarship, where he received his Bachelor of Music Education. Dan taught choir for the next 3 years in public schools in and around Salem, then took a position as Director of Music and Education at the church he was attending. It was here that he met and married his wife, Jeni.

Dan and Jeni have been married 15 years and have 2 boys, Nathan (8) and Sam (6). The family enjoys trips to the beach together and their Friday Family Fun night, where they might go to Safari Sam’s, or have a picnic at a local park. The Bullis’ enjoy spending time with old friends and meeting new ones. They love the real sense of oneness at SPC and look forward to getting to know their new church family.

Karen Sesnon joined our staff as a Ministry Assistant in September 2008.

Karen and her husband Bob are Tigard residents and have 6 grown children and 2 grandchildren. Karen grew up in Southern California and attended Long Beach State and Chico State. Chico was her home for 28 years, where she worked as a Children's Ministry director for two churches, in adult development and training, and as office manager of an Episcopal Church, while raising her family.

In 2006 she and Bob moved to Oregon. Through her work as a pastoral assistant at Lake Grove Presbyterian Church she learned of Sherwood Presbyterian Church and during the summer of 2007 they came for a first visit. The sense of community here caught their attention. They returned for a "second look" in 2008 and have been blessed with a sure sense of place here.

Of her position as a staff member Karen says that she is “grateful for the opportunity to work alongside Len, Angela, Dan, and the many volunteers all of whom are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others”. Her vision is for the church office to provide a network of support, information, and relationships that enables individuals to grow and serve in faith, and ministries to thrive -  as we work together to fulfill our mission of leading self-reliant people into Christ-centered community.

In addition to her duties on staff, she serves as a volunteer coordinator of our SPC Community Garden, on the Hopkins Homework club team, and in Women's ministry. Karen and Bob fill their spare time with remodeling projects, travel, cooking, and entertaining friends. They are members of the Mortensen small group.

Karen can be reached by email or you can call her at 503-925-8175 or find her on Facebook!